Kelley Stoltz

Release Date: 11/19/2021
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Third Man Records – TMR743
Release type: 20th Anniversary Indie Exclusive Silver Swirl Double Vinyl LP Pressing

• Limited to 700 copies

Third Man Records is proud to release the 20th anniversary expanded edition of Kelley Stoltz’s defining album “Antique Glow.” Originally self-released in miniscule vinyl-only quantities in 2001, “Antique Glow” has served not only as a template for the length of Kelley Stoltz’s twenty-plus year career, but has also served as a compass for other Anglophile, TASCAM 388 home recording acolytes.

Original copies featured Stoltz’s clever, wry and fanciful hand-painted adornments overtop reclaimed thrift store LP jackets, Third Man’s release here utilizes some of those original unused images for a die-cut sleeve that ultimately gives the listener six different possible album covers.

The songs are by and large masterpieces of bedroom pop magic. From the whispering “Here Comes the Sun”-adjacent acoustic underpinnings of album opener “Perpetual Night” through the fuzz-threaded leads of “Are You Electric?” Stoltz’s inspirations are impeccable and clear. Sixties Davies British Invasion through 80’s British Bunnymen post-punk, with appropriate off-shoots into West Coast American pop-psych, Velvets-indebted hooliganism and Drake/CSNY acoustic attenuations, the end result is pure joy.

On the expanded version, standout tracks previously relegated to an Australian tour-only CD (like the breathlessly cinematic “Old Pictures”) see their first-ever vinyl and digital release while there’s an additional 8 songs from the “Antique Glow”-era seeing their first ever release in any format. The cutting room floor quality here is second-to-none, Stoltz clearly gifted with the curse of writing too many indelible songs, so the newly released “Too Beck” (originally cast off by Kelley because he thought “it sounded too much like Beck”) and “Umbrella” stand firm as some of the best, most timeless music Stoltz has ever released...a full two decades after he recorded them!

With all instruments and vocals performed by Stoltz, the singularity of vision here is impeccably clear and executed.

1. Perpetual Night
2. Crystal Ball
3. Jewel of the Evening
4. Underwater's Where the Actions Is
5. 1,000 Rainy Days
6. Tubes in the Moonlight
7. 26th Street Floor
8. Are You Electric?
9. Please Visit Soon
10. Listen Darkly
11. Fake Day
12. Mean Marianne
13. Mt. Fuji
14. Silver Lining
15. Old Pictures
16. Immobile Bones
17. You'll Find the Truth in the Frying Pan
18. You, Me and 100 Others
19. You're Making Me Yawn
20. Interplanetary Wisdom
21. Harmonica Makes the Doggy Go Wild
22. Dear John
23. Baby's Fingers
24. Too Beck
25. Discount City Vu
26. Umbrella
27. Spilled Milk (Live on PBS)